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The last part urges lockdowns like China and South Korea but my understanding is that South Korea has not been doing lockdowns and instead was able to ramp up t

The last part urges lockdowns like China and South Korea but my understanding is that South Korea has not been doing lockdowns and instead was able to ramp up testing quickly and isolate infected from others. Is that incorrect?

Benmcdonald__ 7y ago
Yes no lock downs and I believe minimal travel restrictions (only Wuhan, China?). They did extend the school holidays. Even in the center of the outbreak Daegu there was no lockdown in the city.
- Benmcdonald__ 7y ago
  Other things people probably don't realise about Korea. Self isolating and monitoring for people entering the country. Also they aggressive tracked contact with infected people. Watching supermarket survalence video seeing who they were near and then publishing nationally the time and location of where they had been
  - pbourke 7y ago
    plus everyone is wearing a mask
- dba7dba 7y ago
  S. Korea has a very aggressive investigation of movements of infected persons. Once a person is found to be infected, they go through CCTV recordings, cellphone location records, etc and warn people who were in the same location at same time. They also release to the press the location/time infected person was at, such as name of hospital/events. And these are reported to the public. So S. Korea does not do a carpet bombing type of lock down as China but more of a surgical strike type of lock down. But it is a lock down.
klipt 7y ago
Yes but Western countries are past the point where that is effective. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop... > The lengths at which it went to contain the virus are mind-boggling. For example, they had up to 1,800 teams of 5 people each tracking every infected person, everybody they got interacted with, then everybody those people interacted with, and isolating the bunch. That’s how they were able to contain the virus across a billion-people country. > This is not what Western countries have done. And now it’s too late.

Benmcdonald__ 7y ago

Yes no lock downs and I believe minimal travel restrictions (only Wuhan, China?). They did extend the school holidays. Even in the center of the outbreak Daegu there was no lockdown in the city.

Benmcdonald__ 7y ago
Other things people probably don't realise about Korea. Self isolating and monitoring for people entering the country. Also they aggressive tracked contact with infected people. Watching supermarket survalence video seeing who they were near and then publishing nationally the time and location of where they had been
- pbourke 7y ago
  plus everyone is wearing a mask
dba7dba 7y ago
S. Korea has a very aggressive investigation of movements of infected persons. Once a person is found to be infected, they go through CCTV recordings, cellphone location records, etc and warn people who were in the same location at same time. They also release to the press the location/time infected person was at, such as name of hospital/events. And these are reported to the public. So S. Korea does not do a carpet bombing type of lock down as China but more of a surgical strike type of lock down. But it is a lock down.

klipt 7y ago

Yes but Western countries are past the point where that is effective. https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop... > The lengths at which it went to contain the virus are mind-boggling. For example, they had up to 1,800 teams of 5 people each tracking every infected person, everybody they got interacted with, then everybody those people interacted with, and isolating the bunch. That’s how they were able to contain the virus across a billion-people country. > This is not what Western countries have done. And now it’s too late.